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Halo books; what ya think?
Topic Started: Sunday Dec 9 2007, 11:30 AM (1,340 Views)
Master Hitaza
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Well i've got 4 of the books and yer w8ing a 5th if they realease one. Well i find how its been all put 2gether so gr8, im not really into reading much and the last book i actually enjoyed wouldve been LOTR b4 these 4 halo ones.
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Wow, is the Halo story THAT good????? Righto, i'm downloading the original tonight, gonna learn my Halo History.




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The story is pretty good once you piece it all together, but the books add alot to it from the summary's I've read of them.

I've been thinking about getting the Halo comics. They should be pretty cool.
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Im getting the boxset of the 1st 3 Halo books for Xmas. Its only about $30 (on special) from fishpond.com.au
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Dec 9 2007, 06:07 PM
I've been thinking about getting the Halo comics. They should be pretty cool.

ive got the 1st comic of the series but cant seem to find anywhere else to buy them off the net.

And yes thumbs Halo is sweet ass story, for me anyways
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I've traditionally avoided books of games, but I'd love to read the halo backstory "in full" rather than all the primers in mags where I've got most of the background so far.

Can anyone comment on the quality of the writing. Or am I living in dream-cuckoo-land asking for the stories to be well written?
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Dec 10 2007, 09:54 PM
I've traditionally avoided books of games, but I'd love to read the halo backstory "in full" rather than all the primers in mags where I've got most of the background so far.

Can anyone comment on the quality of the writing. Or am I living in dream-cuckoo-land asking for the stories to be well written?

well i find them well written, ghosts of onyx for sure
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just finished fall of reach, well finally had time to read it.. well very enjoyable... captain keyes defiantely was a gr8 flyer indeed.

lol Sgt johnson was only some rnadom master chief found ahaha
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Master Hitaza  Posted on Dec 9 2007, 10:30 AM
  Well i've got 4 of the books and yer w8ing a 5th if they realease one.


Bro Im reading the 5th one, Contact Harvest, right now.

Thumbs these books are pretty good and I aint saying this just cause Im a Fan Boy.

Fall of Reach is one of the best storries i've ever read.

Buy buy buy.
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Jan 4 2008, 09:50 PM
Thumbs these books are pretty good and I aint saying this just cause Im a Fan Boy.

ok, I'm just a pudding right? Methinks twas I asked about the quality of writing etc......


Anyhoo, like I've said before - fuck ya all....




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yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Anyhoo, like I've said before - fuck ya all....




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FUck YOu TWo!!!


:P hehe lol this is fun
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ok, I'm just a pudding right? Methinks twas I asked about the quality of writing etc......


Anyhoo, like I've said before - fuck ya all....


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yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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I've only read one, but I recon that the books of games will always be better than the game, because you read the detail and small stuff you normally would'nt relise while actualy playing the game, if they even hint at it. First one I read was brillant, been looking for the others but couoln't find them (no links plz, i hate buyin stuff over the net) when I find a copy i'll certinally read them, plus they put in a lot more story than any game could(well most).
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Ive just started reading the 3rd book, First Strike. Good so far. Ths 1st book - The Fall of Reach - was great, telling the story of the Spartans from childhood up until the beginning of the 1st game. The 2nd book - The Flood was wierd. Its the story of the 1st game. Every piece of dialogue from the game was in there. It was good because it also told the story from the Covenants side and also from the other Marines on Halo. The 3rd book - the bit that Ive read anyway - is currently telling the story of the rest of the Spartans during the end of the 1st book.

This series has Cerb's Thumbs of Approval. :banana1:
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im about 50 pages into the flood, and yer its gr8 so far for getting the stories of the marines, covenant and also captain keyes... i dotn even remember captain keyes leaving the ship in the game but yer nothing is in the game to prove that he was allways on the ship when it crash landed.

but yer the 1st book.. omfg good aint it
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I finished the 3rd book. Read most of it yesterday at work. Great book. Pretty much tells the story up to the beginning of Halo 2 I think. There are a couple of things that need to be resolved first so maybe the next book comes before Halo 2. I might have to buy them this week.
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Got the 4th book, Ghosts of Onyx yesterday. Finished it last night (shows how much I do at work :P ). Another great book. Now I have to decide whether to get the 5th book or the 3rd Star Wars: Republic Commando book. Maybe both becauce quite frankly I deserve it. :D
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yer all the books by Eric Nylund are gr8, the one by William C Dietz (the flood) is yer not as good but there is some interesting info in there about whats left over after the infestation... like the helplessness and how much aware u still r.
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yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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